Protesters claim Bush’s appearance at an Ernst & Young conference scheduled for Friday represents the 1 percent of Americans who control political power and wealth.
Occupy members plan to protest the visit of former President George W. Bush to the region this week.
The protest organized by Occupy Coachella Valley is set for 9:30 a.m. Friday at an Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa in Palm Desert.
Bush, who recently authored the book Decision Points, is scheduled to speak at the forum starting at 8:30 a.m. He will take part in a session called “Fireside chat” with President George W. Bush, which will be moderated by James S. Turley, Chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young.
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Dear Editor and Reporter and reader, I feel the occupy movement does have a
basic underlying message; Stop letting money decide political
elections; And regulate corporate lobbying (and all lobbying) making it a
public forum. Right now lobbying is mostly two old white guys sitting
across from each other in an office. “They” have probably worked with
each other or went to the same school; And “they” have promised you a
job when you get out of politics, — tripling your present salary!.
The “lobbyist” used to be a “politician”, it worked for him!. Who
owns who? - That’s a “Person-hood”. My friend and I put on a protest in Olympia for World Can’t Wait Oct. 5, 2006 at the capitol. Here are some photos…
http://www.creativeflashes.com/Politics/World-Cant-Wait-Oct-5th-2006/1971747_r54FkC/1/100377072#100377079_npPWj
I also coordinated and promoted a protest in Bellevue when Bush was there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hzh3OtBgNI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPoWphQhdm0&NR=1
Happy to say both worked out without arrest, injury or property damage! I worked with the Washington State
Patrol in Olympia, and Bellevue Police beforehand, and we pretty much
understood the rules of engagement. Medina police were not good
partners..
I lived in the Glenn Hotel in downtown Seattle when the WTO
protests happened. It happened at my front door. I was a part of it,
promoting it, and involved in it. There is something going on, and I
am going to be a part of it again. I have helped organize and promote
protests in Bellevue, Olympia, and Seattle Washington; another big one
is coming. I feel it will be a “WTO” sized protest in multiple cities.
“I” was at the WTO protests in Seattle Washington, (with thousands of
“other” really awesome “people”, and a few “freaks”) when a bunch of
“anarchists” started busting windows with crowbars. We surrounded them,
and they got in a circle with their crowbars. I tried to get the
“Seattle police” to come arrest “these anarchists”, that were only
fifty feet away and threatening violence and breaking windows… The
“Seattle police” would not budge from their “police line”, making all
of “us” the “enemy”…. (There were thousands of “union” and “other”
people sitting and standing in the street, – it was a relativly peaceful
protest until the windows started breaking…). ” I” am not the
“enemy”.
I will be in Seattle at 700 Stewart street at the Federal courthouse
January 20th, 2012!!! I know we can do this better than last time.
The Corporate Occupation of the United States
Our corporate controlled government (through corporate lobbying
and election funding ) is out of the peoples control. People want
government control back. Makes sense to me… I feel US corporate
capitalism (corporatism) is a type of economic fascism: To have a
corporate being where the chain of command eventually muddles all
responsibility to any human being. These corporate beings are running
your life, and controlling your government. (Enough to really make an
individual mad and protest.) In reality, the corporate being does not
exist, and when it comes to face it’s corporate responsibility, it is a
piece of paper. (Or a CEO saying; “I do not recall that”, “I did not
have that information”, “that was not my responsibility, I was running
the company, and not just that department”,,, and on and on. It has bred
a corporate culture of abuse, because they keep getting away with
it..), Corporate person-hood is plain and simply wrong: A corporation
is not a human being. Restore capitalism to individual responsible
chains of command, or this struggle will be lost.
Please Sign the petition to amend the Constitution for revoking corporate personhood at:
movetoamend.org
(I
feel January 20th, 2012: will be a bigger day in US history than WTO
in Seattle. The battle continues, rage against the machine is real.)
January 20, 2012 – Move to Amend Occupies the Courts!
Move
To Amend is planning bold action to mark this date — Occupy the Courts
— a one day occupation on Friday January 20, 2012, of the Federal
Courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States and as many of
the 89 U.S. District Court Buildings as we can. Inspired by Dr. Cornell
West, who was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court last month,
Move to Amend will lead the charge on the judiciary which created — and
continues to expand — corporate personhood rights.
http://open.salon.com/blog/kennspace/2011/10/28/corporate_occupation_of_the_united_states_1